Raymond - Farmersville is a very small town located in the state of Illinois. With a population of 2,953 people and just one neighborhood, Raymond - Farmersville is the 478th largest community in Illinois.
Unlike some towns, Raymond - Farmersville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Raymond - Farmersville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Raymond - Farmersville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Raymond - Farmersville who work in office and administrative support (14.43%), sales jobs (10.70%), and teaching (8.60%).
A relatively large number of people in Raymond - Farmersville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.42% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Raymond - Farmersville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Raymond - Farmersville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Raymond - Farmersville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
As is often the case in a small town, Raymond - Farmersville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Raymond - Farmersville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.48% of adults in Raymond - Farmersville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Raymond - Farmersville in 2022 was $33,158, which is middle income relative to Illinois and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,632 for a family of four. However, Raymond - Farmersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Raymond - Farmersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Raymond - Farmersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Raymond - Farmersville include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Raymond - Farmersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Raymond - Farmersville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 17.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Raymond - Farmersville, IL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (5.0%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.